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    Home » Cozy Living

    Thanksgiving at Alice's Restaurant

    Published: Nov 28, 2013 · Modified: Jun 11, 2021 · by Renée B. · This post may contain affiliate links.

    Welcome to Alice's Restaurant

    For many years, it has been a tradition in our family to listen to Alice's Restaurant every Thanksgiving. This is by no means a unique tradition, but it does still get a rise out of the uninitiated, Mr. B included. Ten minutes into the song the first year I shared it with him, we had a conversation that went something like this...

    Record cover from Alice's Restaurant; Young man sitting at a table wearing only a dinner napkin on his chest, sitting at a dinner table that is set with tall candles.

    Mr B: Does this song ever end?

    Me: Not any time soon.

    Mr B: It isn't even a song. It's just
    some guy who sounds like Bob Dylan's cousin talking nonsense.

    Me: He's Woody Guthrie's son. As in, 'This Land is Your Land.'

    Mr B: And you listen to this every Thanksgiving?

    Me: Of course. Everyone should.

    Mr B: You're adorable. (←That right there - just one of the reasons I love him so much.)

    And because he is a wonderful, patient man, Mr. B sat through all 18-ish minutes of Alice's Restaurant, laughing at me as I sang along to all twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, there on the Group W bench. 

    And he will do it again this year, and the year after that, and the year after that. Because it's a tradition I love and he loves me, and that is what you do for the people you love - you endure their family traditions until somewhere along the way, their traditions became your traditions. Because that's what makes a family.

    Walk right in, it's around the back
    Just a half a mile from the railroad track
    You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

    - Arlo Guthrie

    I love this rendition from artist Andrew Colunga. (Visit his Facebook page here)  This is also the original, full version of the song as well - Enjoy!

    This post is dedicated to Mr. B, and to Thanksgiving's past, present, and future.

    Let the good times roll.

    A Warm, Happy Thanksgiving to all.

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    Renée is self-taught home chef with a penchant for creating healthy(ish) comfort food recipes, and adapting vintage recipes for the 21st century cook. In her spare time, she writes unfinished novels and songs about cowboys.

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    1. Gail says

      November 27, 2014 at 8:49 am

      Yes, it's our tradition, too!

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